Losing America
Little by little the government allowed the destruction of the middle class. What are we without the middle class? People struggling to live the American dream.
There is little support from our leaders to create realistic programs to make America MAGA. MAGA is for the egalitarians. The rich.
Americans now live in a country of anger and mismanagement. Average American workers are being left behind. An example is the president pushing for tariffs without listening to the hardships it causes small businesses.
There is little empathy for those low- to middle-income wage earners who benefit from Medicare and Medicaid programs. Medicaid does not come free. My family member had to sell her home and most of her prepaid burial plan. That relative died penniless in a nursing home.
The president and the Republican Congress have no interest in working with the insurance industry and medical providers to lower costs. Without Medicaid, many people go without health care and mental health needs.
The closing of many rural hospitals is beyond belief. The cost of affordable housing and food for some folks means going without.
Why? So America can go into trillions of dollars of debt and billionaires get more tax breaks. That includes the president and his friends. Where is the outrage? Is it because we are now live in fear as we watch thousands of people of color get dragged off the streets to a swamp. We are allowing this to happen in the United States of America? Where is freedom, liberty and pursuit of happiness
Betty Baum
West Dundee